When you're recording to tape, you usually just settle for what you have. There's not a lot of options to manipulate the performance.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can't replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1′s and 0′s, this digital cloud floating in the ether, but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.